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• TSA is secretly watching you

  
  Consumer Traveler — Authority: 142
  Our only concerns with peeping TSA folk are not at the full-body screening machines, they are also with secret personnel whose job it is to simply sit and watch passengers. These detection officers have the power to command that passengers go through additional screening just because they dont like the way the ...
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  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  
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• Man Arrested Trying To Board Plane With Loaded Gun

  
  Homeland Security News — Authority: 529
  The WHEC I-Team 10 reports that they have learned a man recently tried to board a plane at the Rochester international airport with a loaded gun in his carry-on bag. The man didn’t get far according to the report. .When you go through the security checkpoint at the airport, it’s hard to miss the warning [...] This ...
  3 days ago

• Identity Resolution Daily Links 2009-11-06

  
  Identity Resolution Daily — Authority: 118
  [Post from Infoglide ] The Other Half of Entity Resolution “In a recent post, Jonathan McDonald quotes one definition of entity resolution: ‘According to Gartner, entity resolution is ‘the capability to resolve multiple labels for individuals, products or other noun classes of data into a single resolved ...
  4 days ago

• Behavior Detection Officers Keeping A Watchful Eye On Airports

  
  Homeland Security News — Authority: 529
  Although you probably couldn’t spot one of the if you tried, chances are they spotted you if you were exhibiting suspicious behavior in one of over 160 U.S airports.To identify dangerous people, the Transportation Security Administration has stationed specially trained Behavior Detection Officers at 161 U.S. ...
  5 days ago

• About That Drink: Yet Again, TSA, Airports Give Britney Spears Special Treatment

  
  Debbie Schlussel — Authority: 625
  By Debbie SchlusselI don’t know about you.  But in traveling by plane, I’ve had to throw out lip gloss, bottled water, a shampoo bottle that was over three ounces, and a perfectly good, sealed bottle of orange juice, all because the TSA told me to.  I know the rules are absurd and won’t stop a [...]
  1 week ago

• On the Road: By Any Other Name, You May Not Fly

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  Under a new government program, Secure Flight, names on travel documents must exactly match names on IDs like passports.
  1 week ago

• Deadline Looming – How Will Airline Cargo Get Screened

  
  Homeland Security News — Authority: 529
  Here’s the dilemma. By next August, every piece of freight that is shipped aboard a commercial airline will be required to be screened for bombs just as luggage already is. The catch? There are not enough screeners to scan the thousands of tons of cargo that will need to be scanned.Airlines, the U.S. Transportation ...
  1 week ago

• New Secure Flight requirement comes into force on flights to USA

  
  Aviation news - Planegrazy — Authority: 121
  The Secure Flight requirement of the US Transportation Security Administration(TSA) obliges airlines to collect Secure Flight passenger information fromindividuals travelling to/from/via the USA from 31 October. In connection with the flight booking, passengers must declare their full namejust as it appears in their ...
  2 weeks ago

• TSA Hopes To Keep Terrorists Off-Guard With Security Checks

  
  Homeland Security News — Authority: 529
  Hoping to keep terrorists and others off-guard the TSA conducted a random security check of nearly 700 Bus passengers in Orlando Florida yesterday, using the agency’s Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response, or VIPR.Bryce Williams wasn’t expecting to walk through a metal detector or have his bags screened for ...
  2 weeks ago

• Full-body scanners banned for kids in U.K., likened to child porn

  
  Turnip Style Dot Com — Authority: 151
  While the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) seems intent on scanning everyone with whole-body scanners that strip passengers naked, officials in the U.K. have decided to limit the use of these strip-search machines by forbidding their use on children.
  2 weeks ago

• Full-body scanners banned for kids in U.K., likened to child porn

  
  Consumer Traveler — Authority: 142
  While the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) seems intent on scanning everyone with whole-body scanners that strip passengers naked, officials in the U.K. have decided to limit the use of these strip-search machines by forbidding their use on children.
  2 weeks ago

• TSA Successfully Defends Itself

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 436
  TSA Successfully Defends Itself : Via Schneier on Security . Story here . Basically, a woman posts a horrible story of how she was mistreated by the TSA, and the TSA responds by releasing the video showing that she was lying. There was a similar story in 2007. Then, I wrote : Why is it that we all -- ...
  3 weeks ago

• A Refresher On Airline Security

  
  Offbeat Guides Blog — Authority: 117
  Travel isn’t the same as it used to be. Certainly one of the most noticeable changes, especially when it comes to flying in the post-9/11 world, is the sometimes arduous process of getting through security lines at the airport. You’ll hear people complain and criticize the system for being inefficient, for being ...
  3 weeks ago

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  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  
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• Leave Your Hand Grenades At Home

  
  Home & living - home-living.marc8.com — Authority: 149
  Since July, twenty-one people have been caught bringing grenades (most of them inert) into the airport according to to a recent U.S. read more
  3 weeks ago

• Diabetes Doesn’t Mean An End To Traveling

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 465
  You’ve been diagnosed with diabetes and you’re stuck at home right?Fortunately, diabetes does not mean what it once did and current research and break through’s mean that things are continuing to improve as you read this.Vacations, airline travel, cruises, and long drives to a vacation destination are all ...
  3 weeks ago

• Erroll Southers: Optimism, Bathed In Caution

  
  Security Debrief - a blog of homeland security news and analysis — Authority: 443
  Erroll Southers, President Barack Obamas nominee to head the Transportation Security Administration, kicked his new career off in a very encouraging way today at his confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee.
  3 weeks ago

• Lifting ban on liquids a ‘priority’ but won’t happen soon, TSA says

  
  Security Debrief - a blog of homeland security news and analysis — Authority: 443
  AirportBusiness.com » Article » Lifting ban on liquids a ‘priority’ but won’t happen soon, TSA saysAirline passengers in the USA won’t be saying goodbye anytime soon to one of the thorniest hassles in air travel: restrictions on the amount of liquids that can be carried on a plane.Government and security ...
  3 weeks ago

• Think you’re not happy with TSA? Try working for the agency

  
  Consumer Traveler — Authority: 142
  As much as travelers complain about Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and airport inspections, there is a more dire problem — TSA executives are resigning from the agency in higher numbers than other agencies. This is setting off alarms in Washington.
  3 weeks ago

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